gear roundup

Have you ever swapped out an old iPhone battery for a new one? Probably not, because it's difficult and frustrating and expensive to do. But that could soon change.A recent ruling by the European Parliament seeks to impose stricter rules…

Big changes are coming to Reddit, and nobody is happy about it. Reddit management is looking to take the company public, which means the money-minded folks behind the scenes are feeling pressure to spruce up the coffers of the free-to-use…

Teenage Engineering, the Swedish design firm that created various weird and beautiful gadgets like Panic's Playdate gaming handheld and the the OP-1 music synthesizer, has a new device to ogle. The TP–7 is a field recorder, meant for…

Surprise, surprise, smartphone sales are down again. According to the tech analyst firm IDC, phone sales have declined by nearly 15 percent year over year in the first quarter of 2023. This is a continuation of a slide that began last year;…

The tech industry is about as leaky as a submarine made of Swiss cheese. The latest untimely reveal comes courtesy of CNBC, which reports that internal documents from Google indicate the company is about to announce a folding phone.Word is,…

Our old friend Spot the robot dog is joining the Big Apple's police force. New York City mayor Eric Adams announced that the New York Police Department will be acquiring some new semi-autonomous robotic canines in the coming weeks. The move…

The ongoing incursion of artificial intelligence into every app, service, and facet of your life continues. Microsoft’s popular Android keyboard app SwiftKey lets you type by swiping across letters on the screen to generate words. Now,…

It's April 1, which means there's no shortage of nearly unbelievable news out there. Here are some recent developments that actually happened. I swear, no foolin’.Apple Play LaterFirst, Apple has announced that its next WWDC event is set…

Good artists borrow, great artists steal feature ideas from the app du jour.That might as well be the collective mantra of consumer tech companies, some of which have a well documented copycat habit. This week, it was Spotify’s turn. While…

The artificial intelligence incursion has made its way to the App Store. BlueMail, an app that uses AI to write emails and manage people’s calendars, was set to release an update to its service that would utilize OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT…